NIGHT PRAYER: Saturday 9/9

Lord,

    I need love,

    I need your love,

    I need to love others

    - and I need to be loved...

 

I need to be loved by those I love

and I need to learn to love those 

who don't love me...

 

I need to be loved unconditionally

and I need to love others 

with no strings attached...

 

I need to have love for those who have hurt me

and I need to welcome the love

they have for me...

 

I need to open my heart in love,

and to enter the hearts 

who welcome me in... 

 

I need to love for the sake of others,

loving my neighbor 

more than myself...

 

I need to love when I don't feel like loving,

as others love me, 

in season and out...

I need to love those I think unlovable

as I am loved 

when I don't love myself...

I need to be loved that I might be forgiven

and I need to forgive 

if I hope to love...

 

I need to be loved to know who I am,

to become the person 

I'm made to be...

Lord, I need to love you if I want to know you

and to know your love 

to know myself...

 

I need to love when 

love comes at a price, Lord,

as you loved me at the cost of your life... 

I need your love, Lord, 

so much more 

than any love I can find or have...

I need your love,

for apart from your love, Lord, 

I'd cease to exist...

 

You are love, Lord, 

and if I live in love, I will live in you,

and love itself will live in me...

Lord, hold me in your loving arms

    when I'm awake and while I'm asleep,

that awake, I might keep watch with you

    and asleep, rest in your peace...

Amen.

Tonight's song is unusual: 

    its lyrics consist of one word - oft' repeated!    

(If musicians are interested, here's the score!)

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Love by Michael Englehardt

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